Famous people born in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.

Shaquille O'Neal (47)

American basketball player

Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)

American singer, actress and producer

Ice-T (61)

American musician and actor

Queen Latifah (49)

American singer and actress

Joe Rogan (51)

American actor, comedian and host

Jerry Lewis (1926 - 2017)

American comedian

Joe Pesci (76)

American actor, singer, and producer

Ray Liotta (64)

American actor

Chris Christie (56)

American politician

Keshia Knight Pulliam (40)

American actress

Frankie Valli (85)

American singer

Philip Roth (1933 - 2018)

American author

Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)

American politician

John Amos (79)

American actor

Brian De Palma (78)

American director

Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (48)

American actress

Sarah Vaughan (1924 - 1990)

American singer

Ian Ziering (55)

American actor

Paul Auster (72)

American author

Cissy Houston (85)

American singer

Gloria Gaynor (69)

American singer-songwriter and actress

Bill Bellamy (54)

American actor and comedian

Harlan Coben (57)

American author

Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)

American journalist, author, and poet

Brittany Underwood (30)

American actress

Kimya Dawson (46)

American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Jack Warden (1920 - 2006)

American actor

Wayne Shorter (85)

American musician

Max Weinberg (68)

American drummer

Robert Sternberg (69)

American psychologist

Marvin Hagler (65)

American boxer

Amiri Baraka (1934 - 2014)

Poet, playwright, critic, activist

William J. Brennan (1906 - 1997)

American judge

Raheem Devaughn (44)

Singer, songwiter

Randy Foye (35)

Professional basketball player

Peter Eisenman (86)

American architect, designed the City of Culture of Galicia

Richard Meier (84)

American architect

Savion Glover (45)

American actor, tap dancer and choreographer

Marvin Davis (1925 - 2004)

Chairman of Davis Petroleum, film mogul, philanthropist

Marc Shaiman (59)

Dennis Boutsikaris (66)

American actor

Vivian Blaine (1921 - 1995)

Actor

Ernest Dickerson (67)

Director and cinematographer

Madeline Bell (76)

American singer-songwriter

Jermaine Hopkins (45)

Actor

Franklin Pangborn (1889 - 1958)

Actor

Robert Ellenstein (1923 - 2010)

Actor, director

Michael Seitzman (46)

Film director and producer